MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) vs MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Single-Core Score 4151 3075
Multi-Core Score 14961 5632
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Operating System macOS 10.14.2 (Build 18C54) macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-4260U @ 1.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5 Apple Inc. Mac-7DF21CB3ED6977E5 MacBookAir6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 187.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 110.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Single-Core Score 4151 3075
AES 3336
2.51 GB/sec 		2563
1.93 GB/sec
LZMA 3974
6.21 MB/sec 		2981
4.66 MB/sec
JPEG 4353
35.0 Mpixels/sec 		3254
26.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3929
54.5 Mpixels/sec 		2938
40.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3922
4.03 MB/sec 		2895
2.98 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4538
3.07 MTE/sec 		3342
2.26 MTE/sec
SQLite 3635
100.8 Krows/sec 		2786
77.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3502
15.9 MB/sec 		2686
12.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4699
4.26 MElements/sec 		3572
3.24 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3765
117.7 Mpixels/sec 		2955
92.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4833
128.4 Mpixels/sec 		3373
89.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7026
483.1 functions/sec 		5283
363.3 functions/sec
Camera 4355
12.1 images/sec 		3273
9.08 images/sec
SGEMM 3471
73.4 Gflops 		2548
53.9 Gflops
SFFT 4116
10.3 Gflops 		3055
7.62 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3551
2.65 Mpairs/sec 		2751
2.05 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3256
475.5 Kpixels/sec 		2358
344.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4451
13030.2 FPS 		3241
9489.6 FPS
HDR 3907
14.2 Mpixels/sec 		2990
10.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4058
71.1 Mpixels/sec 		3105
54.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4253
36.4 Words/sec 		2709
23.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 4068
1.19 Msubwindows/sec 		3034
886.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3621
10.0 GB/sec 		2821
7.82 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5033
86.0 ns 		4066
106.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4724
25.2 GB/sec 		2858
15.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Multi-Core Score 14961 5632
AES 11628
8.76 GB/sec 		4816
3.63 GB/sec
LZMA 17240
26.9 MB/sec 		6089
9.51 MB/sec
JPEG 21133
170.0 Mpixels/sec 		7371
59.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16723
231.9 Mpixels/sec 		6302
87.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 14630
15.0 MB/sec 		5067
5.21 MB/sec
Dijkstra 25389
17.2 MTE/sec 		8187
5.54 MTE/sec
SQLite 13889
385.0 Krows/sec 		5024
139.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 14360
65.2 MB/sec 		5157
23.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18809
17.0 MElements/sec 		5635
5.11 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 17042
532.5 Mpixels/sec 		5912
184.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 19704
523.5 Mpixels/sec 		7055
187.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 29411
2.02 Kfunctions/sec 		10311
709.0 functions/sec
Camera 19130
53.0 images/sec 		7135
19.8 images/sec
SGEMM 12936
273.4 Gflops 		4457
94.2 Gflops
SFFT 17167
42.8 Gflops 		6033
15.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 15543
11.6 Mpairs/sec 		5438
4.06 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15106
2.21 Mpixels/sec 		5614
819.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 21926
64186.0 FPS 		8222
24070.2 FPS
HDR 17940
65.0 Mpixels/sec 		6500
23.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 16967
297.2 Mpixels/sec 		6041
105.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 17633
150.9 Words/sec 		5093
43.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 18028
5.27 Msubwindows/sec 		6201
1.81 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5132
14.2 GB/sec 		3571
9.89 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5239
82.6 ns 		4100
105.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4590
24.5 GB/sec 		3221
17.2 GB/sec

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